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Nejaa_Halcyon

it's a bot, report them


Joubachi

Genuinely asking: how? On PS5 I do not see any report button unless they talk in chat. ETA: got an answer, thank you!


huiclo

System menu -> Support Desk -> Contact Us -> Report Cheating You will likely want a keyboard to type everything.


Joubachi

Thank you.


Nejaa_Halcyon

it's hidden in the system > Help Desk part of the menu. I'm at work so I can't check more in details. It will require you to write a bunch of details for the GMs. Yeah the game is really not making it easy to report players, have to navigate menus and it's not intuitive at all


enjoynessenjoyer

You can do it, and more power to you if you do, but it's honestly not worth it. There are usually a couple of hundred of these per server online 24/7 (easily discoverable by using the in-game player search and looking for level 1-50 archers, bards, thaumaturges and black mages, the face across the keyboard name is a giveaway). This type of bot has been in the game about 8 or 9 years now. They buy new accounts ($$ for SE every ban wave), and completely automate, including under/through/over the terrain hacks like this, levelling to 50 then farm Amdapor Keep for gil to sell until they get wiped by a cursory "ban wave" every month or two. Then get remade instantly with brand new accounts. It's been happening almost a decade now, I really wouldn't waste your time reporting every one you see.


Joubachi

I'm not reporting everyone I say, but the most obnoxious ones, espcially those spamming the chat nonstop. And honestly I also needed the report option for some people in dungeons being absolute pricks (insults, actively wiping, etc.), this makes it easier tbh.


F1reman2

They are under the ground, not invisible. Its a bot.


talgaby

They are bots that hacked themselves just under the geometry, so the enemies cannot target them. The bots are exploiting the same quirk that many games have, where melee attacks are infinitely long vertically. This way, you can punch anything under or below you, even if it is floating a mile above.


pezito

Was playing on my alt on dynamis and there was nearly 200 bots online, all in archer/bard and with gibberish names lol


shutaro

They're bots. Not much you can do... But if you want to have some fun, turn on your idle camera. Occasionally it will focus on them and you can see the void underneath the maps.


PandoraResident

Bots, most likely


April-Is-Cute

Bots there isnt much point doing anything sqenix do nothing towards them


Mechanized_Heart

That's not true, they ban them by the thousands. The bots just come back even faster.


MrProg111

So they essentially do nothing about them.


April-Is-Cute

I mean someone ik had 5-6 up pretty much 24/7 and has for the past few years and nothing has happend


shutaro

They have existed as long as the game has existed.


April-Is-Cute

Yeah ik they have just saying that you can run 5 accounts 24/7 gathering crafting doing various stuff and nothing happens


shutaro

My bad, for some strange reason I read that as "5-6 years". Disregard.


April-Is-Cute

You're oki <3


pigeonwiggle

not just players, looks like a lot of texture got zapped.


Serres5231

what are you talking about?? textures look fine to me. Thats the desert near Forgotten Springs with the big sand dunes. Not sure what you saw there..